Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-09-17

washing through OF one Of the narrow necks
in some of the big bends is the cause.
Opposite the city conside rable washing is
going on. Two sections Of the railroad
were washed out.
The Southern Minnesota Fair at
Rochester was pronounced success, and
the exhibit larger than the most successful
record, as will be seen by the following sum-
merry of entries: Cattle 223 entries: horses,
137 sheep and swine, 1876; poultry, 256:
grain and seeds 81; Vegetables, 166; fruit
and flowers, 157; dairy supplies, 80; Gull
nary, 297; textile fabrics, $50 find arts, 50.
The sporting programme was comprehen-
sive and entertaining. The attendance was
large.
The United States District court at
Winona, Mimi, has adjourned. All the
important cases were continued until the
October term. The following cases were
disposed of: Nels Kohloft pleaded guilty
to cutting timber on government land, and
sentence was suspended. James Med Donald,
Forests partner, also pleaded guilty to
passing counterfeit money at Minneapolis,
and received the same sentence, 500 fine
and two years at Saltwater. Henry Holmes
pleaded guilty to selling liquor to Indians
Anxiety is felt for Miss Rosa Cosell,
who left Redfeld, Oak, a month ago to
visit parents who live 20 miles south of
Highmore. Nothing has been heard from
her. She is seventeen years Of age. rather
ce-lOoking and of very retiring dis
position. Her friends fear that che has
been foully dealt with, as no clue to her
| whereabouts can he ascertained. She
travelled alone and it is feared that if
harm has befallen her she was victimized
on the road leading from Highmore south.
A St. Paul paper relates that Reuben
Butterfeld, Of Dalrymple, Dakota, who was
| in town to attend the State Fair was con
fdenced out of s65, by a well dressed man,
who claimed to have once been. clerk for
MIR. Butterfeld, though the latter did not
remember it. The men met, and Mr.. Jones
showed his old employer the town. Late at
night they reached the Hotel Ryan where
for a loan Of sos. That was the last of Jones.
! At Sioux Falls, OAK, two prisoners
in the United States penitentiary escaped
by knocking down, binding and gagging the
guard and procuring the keys. The prison
ers' names are Henry Esmond, serving a
1 term of twelve years for mail robbery, and
Edmund Powers, in for ten years for muir
der. Both men have served one year. The
guard, Motion, was badly handled during
the scufie. The prisoners secured two rifles
and one revolver before departing.
A party of young men were spending
sometime in saloon at New York Mills,
Mimi, and as the evening hours wore on
Mike O'Dea, aged 80, section foreman on
the Northern Pacific, began jumping off the
slipped, striking on his forehead and break
ing his neck. He leaves a sister and
widowed mother who were dependent upon
him. The mother was completely crazed on
learning of his death.
The sheriff of Page county, Iowa, has
arrested Mrs. Josephine Tavener, now re-
siding at Nebraska City, Neb., but whose
home is in Essex, Iowa, on charge of child
/ murder, on information furnished by the
woman's divorced husband, who says she
| administered poison to their child last June,
and tried to kill him By the same means.
The woman denies her guilt, but public
opinion is against her. She was taken to
! Iowa for trial.
The Minnesota state conference Of
the Methodist church will convene in Min
! neapolis Octoberssl2. An unusually lage at
tendance is expected. Among the visitors
/ from other states who will be present are
! Chaplain McCabe, DIR. buckley editor of
the Christian Advocate, and Dr. Thoburn,
VINO has beenfof twenty-five years a mis-
! slOnary at Calcutta, India. The conference
will be held at the Hennepin Avenue Metho-
dist church,
Frank G. McGhee, special agent
United States bureau Of labor, has visited
Brookings. Oak, in the interest of the gov
vorce matters. His Investigations show
that Brookings county has furnished it's
1 quota, thirty cases appearing on the records.
Many OF them We're cases where the
parties came there and lived the time re-
/ quired by law, and then returned to the
| East.
Henry II. Plaugh has sued the North
ern Pacific Railway Company to recovery
of s25, 900 for damages to his person. The
| complaint alleges that in March, 1887, the
plaintiff while riding from Perham to
bralnerd the car in which he was riding
was thrown from the track and that his
shoulder was broken, his nervous system
was shattered and other injuries sustained.
and he wants s25, 900 as damages.
y. G. Moak, for long time sheriff
of Hancock county, died at Fort Dodge
Iowa, of paralysis. Mr. Moak's death is
great shock to every one there. He was
| highly estimated and respected citizen of
the county for many years, was a strong.
rugged, healthy man in the prime of life
and his death hardly seems possible to his
| friends. In his death Hancock county loses
one of its best citizens,
A bank has been organized at Prince
ton, Mimi, to be known as the Bank of
Princeton having a paid up capital Of SlO,-
QUO, with the following officers G. Fl. Rines,
president; j. L. Brady, vice-president;
Charles Keith. cashier. The officers and
directors of the bank are men of means, re-
liability and energy, are old settlers, and
have the full support and confidence Of the
community.
At Winona, Mimi, Fitz Kramer was
confidenced out of 5000 by Polish "Con''
man, said to be from st. Paul. The Pole
progressed to have bought grocery for
200 and hired Kramer for his clerk, thus
inducing Kramer to loan him 5000, to COM
plete the cash Iayment for the place. The
Poie sent kramer to look up some freight
| and himself took the first train out of town.
The managers of the Rock county
agricultural fair at GAINESVILLE, had special
sensation on their program in the shape of
Two public marriage ceremonies. The bril-.
DIAL pairs were Mr. Crossman Alton and
Miss Ferris, of Baraboo, and Henry S. Bar
nard, of Beloit, and Miss Nellie Blackman.
Of Baraboo. a long List Of present had been
offered in each case.
C.E, Meader, treasurer of Winnie
sheik' Co. L., was found dead in a grove
near DEBORAH with bullet hole through his
right temple. Business trouble had
worried him lately. but it was NOT af a